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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:00:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/12233: Fvwm2 causes FreeBSD-current to hang or reboot
Message-ID:  <199906160600.XAA99955@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/12233; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: dmmiller@cvzoom.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/12233: Fvwm2 causes FreeBSD-current to hang or reboot
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:52:51 -0500

 On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:37:10PM -0700, a little birdie told me
 that dmmiller@cvzoom.net remarked
 > 
 ...
 >
 > By the way, I had my kernel compiled with "-mpentium -O3", and used the
 > same flags to "make world".  I also built fvwm2 and XFree86 3.3.3.1 with
 > these flags.  It may be this very reason that FreeBSD is behaving like
 > this, the fact that egcs may cause some unstable code as compared to the
 > old gcc-2.7*.  Again, it doesn't happen very often, about once every two
 > weeks.
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > Stop using fvwm2.
 
 Alternate fix:
 Stop using -O3.
 Last I heard there was known problems with -O above 1.
 
 
 
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